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View Poll Results: Which city is the most beautiful?
Stockholm 6 30.00%
Riga 1 5.00%
Helsinki 6 30.00%
Gdansk 5 25.00%
Tallinn 2 10.00%
Voters: 20. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-19-2013, 03:49 PM
 
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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For each city I provided 5 links. Which one is the most beautiful for you?

Stockholm, Sweden

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=sto...97.36,,0,-0.81

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=sto...50.04,,0,-0.46

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=sto...75.71,,0,-0.55

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=sto...35.59,,0,-4.93

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=sto...06.95,,0,-2.01

Riga, Latvia

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Rig...,127.1,,0,1.19

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Rig...61.03,,0,-1.37

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Rig...31.34,,0,-1.83

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Rig...30.62,,0,-6.76

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Rig...06.54,,0,-1.37

Helsinki, Finland

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...25.59,,0,-0.63

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,56.28,,0,3.75

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...69.31,,0,-3.47

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,76.2,,0,-3.65

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...71.54,,0,-8.95

Gdansk, Poland

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Gda...05.44,,0,-2.01

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Gda...13.61,,0,-4.66

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Gda...98.41,,0,-3.02

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Gda...93.12,,0,-4.93

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Gda...,265.16,,0,2.1

Tallinn, Estonia

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Tal...8.73,,0,-10.05

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Tal...07.82,,0,-3.75

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Tal...01.84,,0,-1.19

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Tal...,24.85,,0,-9.5

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Tal...03.44,,0,-3.47

Please note that all of these cities except Gdansk are country capitals. Which one is your favourite to visit?
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Old 03-20-2013, 03:50 AM
 
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Having been to all of them it would be Tallinn for me, followed by Stockholm, Riga, Helsinki and than Gdansk.Riga looks a little tired and frayed around the edges in many parts though but the bone structure of the old town is lovely.
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Old 03-20-2013, 03:51 AM
 
Location: Sweden
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I don´t need to look.
But I most say that you chose some bad pictures, specially the ones from Stockholm.
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Old 03-20-2013, 04:57 AM
 
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You left out most of modern Tallinn and Stockholm, but they're still the best two to me.
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Old 03-20-2013, 08:49 AM
 
Location: Finland
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I looked, though didn't needed to. My vote goes to Helsinki, as it's the city I'm from and that I love. Gdansk would be the most interesting city to visit.

You left out the main landmark from Helsinki, the Helsinki Cathedral :
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,,0,-22.5&z=14

The House of the Estates is one of my favourite buildings:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,,0,-22.5&z=17

The Central Railway Square is perhaps 'The' place in Helsinki.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...2.78,,0,0&z=17

The Presidental Palace and the Uspenki Cathedral, the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Western Europe:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...8.51,,0,0&z=17

The 'Northern Shore':
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...8.56,,0,0&z=17

The National Museum of Finland, built in the National Romantic style, indigenous to Finland, as is the two towered building in the railway station picture, the National Theatre.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,,0,-22.5&z=17

The Boulevard:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...5.98,,0,0&z=16

Hotelli Torni, 'The Tower Hotel', inspiration from Chicago and NYC from the 20's, the residence of the victors of WWII, full of history, and a playground both for the CIA and KGB during the Cold War:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,0,-50.79&z=16

Typical view from Helsinki, and Finland as a whole. Some buildings just don't fit in
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...7.82,,0,0&z=16

Please, people from the other cities, post pictures as well! I find this really interesting.

(All the locations are chosed to look 360, so remember to do that.)

Last edited by Ariete; 03-20-2013 at 08:59 AM..
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Old 03-20-2013, 09:15 AM
 
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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Originally Posted by Ariete View Post
I looked, though didn't needed to. My vote goes to Helsinki, as it's the city I'm from and that I love. Gdansk would be the most interesting city to visit.

You left out the main landmark from Helsinki, the Helsinki Cathedral :
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,,0,-22.5&z=14

The House of the Estates is one of my favourite buildings:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,,0,-22.5&z=17

The Central Railway Square is perhaps 'The' place in Helsinki.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...2.78,,0,0&z=17

The Presidental Palace and the Uspenki Cathedral, the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Western Europe:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...8.51,,0,0&z=17

The 'Northern Shore':
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...8.56,,0,0&z=17

The National Museum of Finland, built in the National Romantic style, indigenous to Finland, as is the two towered building in the railway station picture, the National Theatre.
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,,0,-22.5&z=17

The Boulevard:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...5.98,,0,0&z=16

Hotelli Torni, 'The Tower Hotel', inspiration from Chicago and NYC from the 20's, the residence of the victors of WWII, full of history, and a playground both for the CIA and KGB during the Cold War:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,0,-50.79&z=16

Typical view from Helsinki, and Finland as a whole. Some buildings just don't fit in
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...7.82,,0,0&z=16

Please, people from the other cities, post pictures as well! I find this really interesting.

(All the locations are chosed to look 360, so remember to do that.)
I know but its really hard to show everything in 5 links and i wanted to show a bit of landmarks and also just normal busy streets with people... more like a daily life. And i didnt want to post like 20 links for each city because nobody would go through them all
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Old 03-20-2013, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Finland
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I know but its really hard to show everything in 5 links and i wanted to show a bit of landmarks and also just normal busy streets with people... more like a daily life. And i didnt want to post like 20 links for each city because nobody would go through them all
I know, not blaming you for that. It's impossible to show a city in five links. And you got one of the best buildings, the Hotel Kämp in the 3rd picture. My only criticism goes to that you didn't include the Helsinki Cathedral, the most famous building of them all and clearly visible from almost anywhere. As a side note, the Russians wanted to build the Uspenski Catherdral on a hill so that'll battle the the protestant cathedral.

And I would have gone through 20 links.

May I go on?

The Fennia building, one of my favourites, left to it is the Helsinki Casino. Right to the Fennia, a brutal office building built in 1939:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...,0,-22.64&z=17

Kruununhaka, my favourite 'hood':
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...6.13,,0,0&z=17

Another one:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...7.83,,0,0&z=17

Old and new mixed (360):
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...1.46,,0,0&z=15

Yes, that is a Church:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Hel...5.14,,0,0&z=15
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Old 03-20-2013, 02:28 PM
 
Location: Vancouver, Canada
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not a single vote for riga so far.. wow
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Old 03-21-2013, 11:53 AM
 
Location: Macao
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I don´t need to look.
But I most say that you chose some bad pictures, specially the ones from Stockholm.
So many links, but I started with Stockholm than Riga.

I thought the same thing, that the Stockholm pictures chosen seemed to be quite bad ones. Made me wonder if there was an agenda, as the Riga ones immediately looked significantly better.

I didn't bother with viewing the rest though. Mostly because I think all of the cities would be equally interesting to visit regardless of the links.
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